Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and Analysis
Python continues to lead the top Data Science platforms, but R and RapidMiner hold their share; Almost 50% have used Deep Learning tools; SQL is steady; Consolidation continues.
Regional Participation
The participation by region was slightly higher in the US and lower in Europe than in 2018 but very close to 2017 participation.- US/Canada, 40.6% (vs 36.6% last year)
- Europe, 33.3 (vs 37.5%)
- Asia, 12.1 (vs 11.7%)
- Latin America, 7.3 (vs 6.6%)
- Africa/MidEast, 4.5% (same)
- Australia/NZ, 2.3 (vs 3.1%)
Full Results and 3-year trends
The following table shows the poll results in detail.| KDnuggets 2019 Poll: What Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning software you used in the past 12 months for a real project? | |
| Software (number of voters in 2019) |
 % voters in 2019 % voters in 2018
 % voters in 2017
|
| Python (1078) | 65.8%
65.6%
59.0%
|
| RapidMiner (839) | 51.2%
52.7%
31.9%
|
| R Language (764) | 46.6%
48.5%
56.6%
|
| Excel (571) | 34.8%
39.1%
31.5%
|
| Anaconda (556) | 33.9%
33.4%
24.3%
|
| SQL Language (538) | 32.8%
39.6%
39.2%
|
| Tensorflow (519) | 31.7%
29.9%
22.7%
|
| Keras (436) | 26.6%
22.2%
10.7%
|
| scikit-learn (418) | 25.5%
24.4%
21.9%
|
| Tableau (362) | 22.1%
26.4%
21.8%
|
| Apache Spark (345) | 21.0%
21.5%
25.5%
|
| Microsoft Power BI (217) | 13.2%
12.5%
11.5%
|
| XGBoost (208) | 12.7%
na na |
| Java (203) | 12.4%
15.1%
15.5%
|
| Hadoop: Open Source Tools (198) | 12.1%
11.0%
16.8%
|
| PyTorch (185) | 11.3%
6.4%
3.4%
|
| Microsoft SQL Server (184) | 11.2%
13.8%
13.0%
|
| KNIME (175) | 10.7%
12.3%
21.0%
|
| Other free analytics/data mining tools (145) | 8.8%
8.3%
5.4%
|
| SQL on Hadoop tools (138) | 8.4%
10.2%
11.6%
|
| Unix shell/awk (130) | 7.9%
9.2%
10.8%
|
| H2O.ai (117) | 7.1%
6.1%
6.9%
|
| C/C++ (116) | 7.1%
6.8%
7.1%
|
| Javascript (112) | 6.8%
na na |
| Weka (109) | 6.7%
11.4%
10.8%
|
| MATLAB (100) | 6.1%
9.3%
8.3%
|
| Apache Kafka (98) | 6.0%
na na |
| Other programming and data languages (94) | 5.7%
6.9%
7.6%
|
| SAS Base (93) | 5.7%
5.5%
7.7%
|
| Other Deep Learning Tools (92) | 5.6%
4.9%
5.4%
|
| IBM SPSS Statistics (87) | 5.3%
8.0%
7.6%
|
| Google Bigquery (86) | 5.2%
na na |
| Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (77) | 4.7%
5.5%
7.2%
|
| Hadoop: Commercial Tools (74) | 4.5%
5.7%
8.5%
|
| Alteryx (66) | 4.0%
4.0%
5.7%
|
| QlikView (60) | 3.7%
4.3%
4.7%
|
| Scala (57) | 3.5%
5.9%
8.3%
|
| SAS Enterprise Miner (55) | 3.4%
4.3%
6.2%
|
| MLlib - Spark ML Library (52) | 3.2%
3.8%
5.1%
|
| Orange Data Mining (51) | 3.1%
4.1%
4.2%
|
| LightGBM (50) | 3.1%
na na |
| Amazon Machine Learning/SageMaker (43) | 2.6%
3.3%
1.9%
|
| Databricks Unified Analytics Platform (43) | 2.6%
1.2%
na
|
| BigML (43) | 2.6%
0.9%
1.1%
|
| DeepLearning4J (41) | 2.5%
3.4%
2.4%
|
| Other paid analytics/data mining/data science software (40) | 2.4%
2.4%
2.5%
|
| IBM SPSS Modeler (39) | 2.4%
4.9%
6.9%
|
| fastai library (39) | 2.4%
na na |
| Dataiku (33) | 2.0%
6.3%
8.0%
|
| Apache Storm (31) | 1.9%
na na |
| IBM DSX/Watson Studio (31) | 1.9%
4.5%
8.0%
|
| Gnu Octave (30) | 1.8%
2.1%
2.7%
|
| Pentaho (29) | 1.8%
1.6%
2.0%
|
| Microsoft other ML/Data Science tools (29) | 1.8%
1.3%
2.5%
|
| CatBoost (29) | 1.8%
na na |
| JMP (28) | 1.7%
1.7%
2.1%
|
| Apache MXnet (28) | 1.7%
1.5%
2.0%
|
| Julia (28) | 1.7%
0.7%
1.2%
|
| Teradata (27) | 1.6%
2.1%
2.7%
|
| Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (27) | 1.6%
3.0%
3.7%
|
| Theano (26) | 1.6%
4.9%
6.5%
|
| IBM Cognos (23) | 1.4%
1.5%
2.4%
|
| Stata (22) | 1.3%
1.5%
1.3%
|
| Google Cloud AutoML (21) | 1.3%
na na |
| MicroStrategy (21) | 1.3%
1.7%
1.2%
|
| DataRobot (21) | 1.3%
1.3%
1.9%
|
| Rattle Data Mining (21) | 1.3%
2.0%
2.9%
|
| Perl (21) | 1.3%
1.0%
1.9%
|
| Microsoft Machine Learning Server (20) | 1.2%
2.1%
4.9%
|
| TIBCO Spotfire (19) | 1.2%
3.1%
2.8%
|
| SAP Analytics/Predictive Analytics (18) | 1.1%
1.4%
1.1%
|
| Cloudera Data Science Workbench (18) | 1.1%
na na |
| Minitab/Salford Predictive Modeler (17) | 1.0%
1.8%
2.1%
|
| Mathematica (17) | 1.0%
1.6%
1.6%
|
| C4.5/C5.0/See5 (17) | 1.0%
1.0%
1.4%
|
| Solver (former XLMiner) (15) | 0.9%
1.3%
0.7%
|
| Torch (15) | 0.9%
1.0%
1.3%
|
| Flink (13) | 0.8%
na na |
| SAP HANA (13) | 0.8%
1.3%
1.3%
|
| TFLearn (12) | 0.7%
1.1%
0.0%
|
| Looker (10) | 0.6%
na na |
| Sqream (10) | 0.6%
na na |
| Caffe (10) | 0.6%
1.5%
3.5%
|
| WSO2 Stream Processor (9) | 0.5%
na na |
| Gurobi (9) | 0.5%
na na |
| Lisp (7) | 0.4%
0.3%
0.4%
|
| TIBCO Data Science (6) | 0.4%
1.3%
0.5%
|
| Sisense (5) | 0.3%
na na |
| BayesiaLab (5) | 0.3%
0.6%
0.4%
|
| Altair/Datawatch/Angoss (5) | 0.3%
0.3%
0.7%
|
| Vowpal Wabbit (5) | 0.3%
0.4%
1.2%
|
| Datameer (4) | 0.2%
na na |
| Oracle Data Science Platform (4) | 0.2%
1.0%
1.8%
|
| Domino Data Labs (4) | 0.2%
0.1%
0.6%
|
| Mode Analytics (4) | 0.2%
na na |
Here are the results of the previous KDnuggets Polls on Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science Software:
- The 6 components of Open-Source Data Science/ Machine Learning Ecosystem; Did Python declare victory over R?, Jun 2018.
- Python eats away at R: Top Software for Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning in 2018 - Trends and Analysis, May 2018.
- New Leader, Trends, and Surprises in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning Software Poll, 2017
- R, Python Duel As Top Analytics, Data Science software, 2016
- R leads RapidMiner, Python catches up, Big Data tools grow, Spark ignites, 2015
- RapidMiner Continues To Lead, 2014
- RapidMiner and R vie for first place, 2013
- KDnuggets 2012 Poll: Analytics, Data mining, Big Data software used
- KDnuggets 2011 Poll: Data Mining/Analytic Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2010 Poll: Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2009 Poll: Data Mining Tools Used
- KDnuggets 2008 Poll: Data Mining Software Used
- KDnuggets 2007 Poll: Data Mining/Analytics Software Tools
